Header and credits
Header Image from Tony Bartl and CUED
The image for the header is a mural painted by the artist Tony Bartl. It is located in the Entrance Hall to Inglis Building in Cambridge University’s Engineering Department. In the words of the artist.
“A pictorial solution based on the movement of a wave, chosen as the symbol of development. There are verticals and horizontals to establish unity with the architectural structure of the entrance hall. Insistent angularities and some of the transparencies and patterns serve the same purpose, to keep the mural in the wall. Pictorial reasons rather than historical accuracy are responsible for the choice of subjects.
On the left a figure leads in to the composition – early man, assessing nature through his senses, vision and sound. Then the Egyptian age, science close to art, the pyramids, the wheel – and Greece, with its classical knowledge, the Ptolemaic sphere and the screw of Archimedes, Hero’s turbine – Icarus, the desire to overcome gravity, the balloon. – and from then onwards, knowledge more usefully employed. Stephenson’s “Rocket”, the ship propeller, the rolled steel joist, inventions for sea, land and sky – the Industrial age becoming more and more functional, gas and electricity revolutionising the world – the first iron bridge, the jet engine – and finally the engineer of today, receiving knowledge based on the experience of the centuries and extending it towards new horizons.”
More details can be found at this link
My thanks go to the artist Tony Bartl for capturing the beauty of Engineering so vividly and to CUED for preserving and sharing this mural with the wider world. Incidentally, this is the place where I nurtured my research skills.
Harry Hubball & Tony Clarke
For making SoTL possible and meaningful for me.
Russel Day
For VISTA help.
Lucas wright
Lucas wright from UBC helped me get started with this ePortfolio. Thank you Lucas!
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